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Soundin' Off -- the lifeboat

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Still minus-1

Got to love a country where the Parliament takes time to analyze the captain of the national team. The country, if not the Parliament.

The fans in Bingo don't have Dave Cameron to kick around anymore; Cameron is off to Toronto to coach the St. Mike's Majors again.

Winnipeg advanced with a 4-1 win in Game 7; Jason Jaffray finished a hat trick into an empty net. It's Manitoba-Hamilton in the division final, the first time two Canadian teams have met this deep into the playoffs since those two teams met in 2003.

Providence won, too, to start the second round and keep the momentum going.

Frans Nielsen assisted on the first goal as Denmark advanced to the second round of the Worlds with a win over Ukraine. The United States played a wild but fruitless third period, almost salvaging a point before Jaroslav Bednar scored the winner with 1:08 to go. Former Wolf Pack centerman Chad Larose had scored a short-hander with 6:01 to play, and Andrew Hutchinson had put one in on the power play 1:38 later to tie it. So the U.S. is 1-1 in the second round. Belarus advanced behind five different goal scorers we've never heard of. Russia beat Finland, and Denis Grebeshkov finally made an appearance, assisting on Petr Schastlivy's winning goal. Sean Bergenheim was scoreless and penaltyless. (By the way, did you know that if you change that last number in the name of the PDF file, you can get the second-period summary, for whatever that's worth? Found that one by accident when I almost posted the wrong thing...)

Hadn't known that onetime Ranger Miloslav Hořava had a kid by the same name playing in Sweden, until today: Joe Dumas posted this clip on Eric McErlain's Off Wing Opinion. Take a look. (It's short, so it loads quickly even on dialup.)

And a sad couple of days in lots of different places: RIP, Tom Poston, Zola Taylor (the "lovely dish" to go with the four Platters), and Dabbs (Rev. Alden) Greer.

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